Pozu

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries

Pozu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.

  • PEPeru≈1 in 140K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain1 in 5.6M
  • COColombia≈1 in 1.2Mfew records

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Peru (inferred from the name graph)

≈250 people, est.

Record sources
21 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 139K (inferred from the name graph)

Peru, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Pozu is found

(measured from records)

Pozu counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Pozu is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PE Peru≈250 est.≈1 in 139K—Pozu21
CO Colombia≈42 est.≈1 in 1.2M—Pozu14
US United States≈11 est.≈1 in 31MlistedPozu8
CL Chile≈9 est.≈1 in 2.2M—Pozu11
ES Spain91 in 5.6M9Pozu8
VE Venezuela≈3 est.≈1 in 11M—Pozu5

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Pozu is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru

    Also written Pozú

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Позу

17 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Pozu is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Asturian, well (hole sunk into the ground)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Esperanto, imperative of pozi

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence

(measured from records)

3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Which countries have the most people with the surname Pozu?
Mondonomo estimates about 246 people named Pozu in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pozu. After it come Colombia, United States, Chile and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Pozu?
In Spain, the national register counted 9 people named Pozu, about 1 in 5.6 million residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Pozu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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